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lye commented on Let's stop counting centuries   dynomight.net/centuries/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
zdragnar · 2 years ago
You'll want winter tires on well before the air temperature hits freezing for water. Forecasts aren't that predictable, and bridges (no earth heat sink underneath) will ice over before roads do.

40 F is a good time for getting winter tires on.

As someone who lives in a humid, wet area that goes from -40 at night in winter to 100+ F in summer, I also vastly prefer Fahrenheit.

The difference between 60, 70, 80 and 90 is pretty profound with humidity, and the same is true in winter. I don't think I've ever set a thermometer to freezing or boiling, ever. All of my kitchen appliances have numbers representing their power draw.

lye · 2 years ago
Well, it's been working fine for me for about 15 years, let's agree to disagree here. I would still find it easier to remember to change the tires at +1°C than whatever the hell it comes down to in Fahrenheit.

I too live in a region with 80 (Celsius) degree yearly variation (sometimes more; the maximum yearly difference I've lived through is about 90 degrees IIRC: -45 in January to +43 in July), and Fahrenheit makes absolutely no sense to me in this climate.

lye commented on Let's stop counting centuries   dynomight.net/centuries/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
creeble · 2 years ago
I agree. For ambient temp, F is twice as accurate in the same number of digits. It also reflects human experience better; 100F is damn hot, and 0F is damn cold.

Celsius is for chemists.

lye · 2 years ago
There's very little difference between e.g. +25°C and +26°C, not sure why you would need event more accuracy in day to day life. There are decimals if you require that for some reason.

Celsius works significantly better in cold climates for reasons mentioned in another comment.

lye commented on Let's stop counting centuries   dynomight.net/centuries/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
jonathan_landy · 2 years ago
Re temp, I’m glad we use F for daily life in the USA. The most common application I have for temp is to understand the weather and I like the 0-100 range for F as that’s the typical range for weather near me.

For scientific work I obviously prefer kelvin.

Celsius is nearly useless.

lye · 2 years ago
What the hell are you talking about. If it's 0°C outside (or below that), I know that it's high time to put winter tires on because the water in the puddles will freeze and driving on summer tires becomes risky. I had to look it up, but apparently that's +32 °F. Good luck remembering that.

+10°C is "it's somewhat cold, put a jacket on". +20°C is comfortable in light clothing. +30°C is pretty hot. +40°C is really hot, put as little clothing as society permits and stay out of direct sun.

Same with negatives, but in reverse.

Boiling water is +100°C, melting ice is very close to 0°C. I used that multiple times to adjust digital thermometers without having to look up anything.

It's the most comfortable system I can imagine. I tried living with Fahrenheit for a month just for fun, and it was absolutely not intuitive.

lye commented on 1Password and 2FA: Is it wrong to store passwords and one-time codes together? (2023)   blog.1password.com/1passw... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
weinzierl · 2 years ago
Say, I want to go the extra mile of not storing them together. What would I have to do?

- Both in same password manager is obviously storing together.

- Both on same phone, but different apps. There are the subvariants of: password manager and dedicated OTP app or two different password managers. Also there is the consideration where the apps really store the secret data, e.g. system provided vault

- OTP on a separate device

I think the middle option has too many ifs and buts and you could argue that as long as its the same device it's not really separate.

So dedicated OTP token. What should I use?

Cheap mobile phone? Does it need a SIM? Are there dedicated devices? Can they store multiple keys?

lye · 2 years ago
Either a couple of FIDO keys, if your website supports them, or one of these:

https://www.token2.com/shop/category/classic-tokens

https://www.token2.com/shop/category/c301-tokens

https://www.token2.com/shop/category/multi-profile-programma...

Other vendors probably have something like that, I link to what I've personally used.

lye commented on Ask HN: Who Wants a Penpal?    · Posted by u/sdsd
GauntletWizard · 2 years ago
I'm a lonely computer nerd, and yet despite having made a lot of friends on the internet in my youth, I'm no longer willing to do so. The internet has gotten too weird and polarized, and quite frankly I don't like the people who share my interests. Most nerds are living in fantasy worlds, not just part-time.

The problem is one of degrees - Anyone you notice on a big site is likely posting very often - "Terminally online" is the word. The more niche you go, they are alternatively deeper into their own fantasy worlds. I haven't figured out how to arrange coincidence; Repeated coincidental meetings have long been studied to be the basis of friendship, and intentionally going to "meetups" where the attendance is common but not fixed is the best way to foster that.

Online matchmaking has been the biggest problem here - You are guaranteed a game, but you'll never run into the same people twice. Once upon a time you had localish communities form around servers that were low-ping to them, which really worked well - You were likely to run into the same people, and they were likely to be nearby but not so close that you'd have run into them anyway.

lye · 2 years ago
Unless you're living in the middle of nowhere and the only people you're close to are the ones you have nothing in common with. Besides superficial characteristics like ethnicity and language. These threads are a blessing for some of us.
lye commented on Ask HN: Who Wants a Penpal?    · Posted by u/sdsd
__rito__ · 2 years ago
What is the last character? 'c' or 'ch'?
lye · 2 years ago
'ч' reads like 'ch', but I think you've decoded it the wrong way.
lye commented on Ask HN: Who Wants a Penpal?    · Posted by u/sdsd
alericbdent · 2 years ago
Hi, wow, are you me? Would love to chat. Sadly I can't find any contact info or am too stupid to see it. :-/ If you like, find me on telegram, user name as above.
lye · 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure it's a Signal ID.
lye commented on Pattern of brain damage is pervasive in Navy SEALs who died by suicide   nytimes.com/2024/06/30/us... · Posted by u/thelastgallon
sofixa · 2 years ago
From a sibling comment, in Russia fertility rates did indeed decrease:

https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/99/2/229/58403/...

lye · 2 years ago
I am not even in Russia, but that war pulled so much out of every region, including mine (which did not see fighting directly, but provided many conscripts and resources), that after the war there simply wasn't much to eat or too many people to work the fields. My grandparents first ate caramel candy in 1952, IIRC. Good luck increasing your fertility rates in these conditions.
lye commented on FUTO Keyboard   keyboard.futo.org/... · Posted by u/richardboegli
logicprog · 2 years ago
That's pretty clearly not what they mean, and I'm sure you know it. You pretty clearly mean using the software as in taking the code and repurposing it or modifying it, not using the software products itself.
lye · 2 years ago
No I did not, and I have no desire to play the guessing game when it comes to these things. There are lots of FOSS alternatives with no strings attached, or honest commercial projects which don't claim to be something they're not.
lye commented on Open source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' exits beta to challenge Visual Studio Code   visualstudiomagazine.com/... · Posted by u/avivallssa
exabrial · 2 years ago
As an example:

We have a build for a giant xyz customer system. Every part of the codebase is modern; it has thousands of JUnit5 test cases, 26+ modules. We've set the build up "correctly": following Maven best practices and it turns out, when you follow them, things are really quick with builds just under a few minutes.

Eclipse does an amazing just handling a project this size. It also is able to do things VsCode simply cannot do. We had a enum we needed to move from a submodule to a a global one. Eclipse found all of the references, including ones in our documentation, strings, test cases, and even prop files for runtime config, and refactored the whole thing in a few clicks. We've had the same experience with IntelliJ actually too, where the tools are even more refined.

Eclipse/IntelliJ are on a different plane. VsCode does have it's merits, but it's not really a full blown IDE.

lye · 2 years ago
This. I wish more users that prefer quite primitive text editors would broaden their horizons and learn at least one proper IDE. It's been honestly quite funny reading comments for the past few years about how amazing e.g. jump to definition is (compared to grepping and navigating manually) like it's some great new thing when we've had it in every IDE for decades (and much, much more). I remember using autocompletion/jump to definition/various refactorings in Borland IDEs back in 2004, and they were surely available long before then.

The level of code refactoring tools available in IDEA dwarf anything vscode has been able to come up with, and I don't see that changing. And it's not just for Java (although it gets the best tooling), they're the best for every language that has any popularity at all. Including TypeScript, where IDEA has a significantly better performing lsp features than vscode.

For example, it automatically finds copypasted code (including cases where variable names and code structure might differ) and can automatically extract a single implementation and generalize it for you with a single key press. If you have multiple classes with similar interfaces, it can extract the common bits into an interface and update the classes to become its implementations. It can shuffle types and methods around for you, automatically updating references (which you've mentioned). Autocompletion for absolutely everything, including difficult cases like e.g. SQL inside a Rust snippet inside Markdown. And much more.

u/lye

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